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Johns Hopkins Family Health and Child Survival |
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Helping the world's children |
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Johns Hopkins Family Health and Child Survival |
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Helping the world's children |
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Learn how JHU-FHACS Scientists are demonstrating that zinc reduces pneumonia, diarrhea, and mortality, and boosts activity and immunity in children. |
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Most child deaths occur in the first weeks of life. Explore how FHACS is working to reduce perinatal and neonatal mortality |
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Through work on the WHO-UNICEF Integrated Management of Sick Children (IMCI) approach view FHACS is improving primary healthcare for children in 74 countries |
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Despite decades of research and treatment, diarrheal diseases still claim the lives of millions of children worldwide each year |
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Investigate our collaborative efforts to monitor and control infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and bacterial infections caused by S. pneumoniae and Hib |
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Acute respiratory infections - including pneumonia - cause more illness and death in children than any other class of disease. See what FHACS is doing to help. |
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With research on improved micronutrient nutrition and better feeding practices, FHACS is reducing low birth weight, stunting and wasting around the globe |
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Through operations research, examine how FHACS has helped to create better health systems to the world's most needy |
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FHACS is a cooperative agreement between USAID and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. FHACS is also a member of the Child Health Research Project |
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Website content and design by Laura M. Kelley January 2001, last updated 8-15-2001 |
